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The message of the old testamentary Maccabees is martial and pernicious as well as already pointed out by Erasmus of Rotterdam. The circumstances in which the Maccabeean literature emerged are complex and have not yet been explored by scholars in all their details; even more complex is the history of its influence, the Wirkungsgeschichte in the sense Hans-Georg Gadamer has given to the term, a history which was to large extent a purely Christian one. The early Christians saw the Maccabees as prototypical martyrs. Later they discovered warrior heroes whose courage was the measure of whoever fought in the name of God or freedom: Saxons, Scots, or citizens of Cologne who rose up against their rulers. This history of influence is the focus of the essays collected in this book, which extend thematically and chronologically from the cult of martyrs in late antiquity to the time of the modern wars of liberation.
Price: $175.00
Pages: 312
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
06 January 2012
ISBN: 9789004211056
Format: Hardcover
''De manière générale, c’est l’histoire de la réception des livres des Maccabées en monde chrétien qui est étudiée ici, et non celle de la réception juive (à une exception près). On ne peut qu’encourager la directrice du volume à envisager une suite à ce bel ouvrage, qui porterait cette fois sur l’histoire de la réception des Maccabées dans le monde juif, de l’Antiquité à nos jours.''
Katell Berthelot, Recherches de Science Religieuse, Avril – Juin 2012, Tome 100/2, section Bulletin de Judaïsme Ancien (2), pp. 292-294.
‘’La miscellanea qui presentata é destinata di certo a porsi come un punto di riferimento per le future ricerche sulla storia e sulle numerose reinterpretazioni dei Maccabei dall’eta antica fino ai giorni nostri.’’
Luigi Russo, Universitá Europea di Roma.
Katell Berthelot, Recherches de Science Religieuse, Avril – Juin 2012, Tome 100/2, section Bulletin de Judaïsme Ancien (2), pp. 292-294.
‘’La miscellanea qui presentata é destinata di certo a porsi come un punto di riferimento per le future ricerche sulla storia e sulle numerose reinterpretazioni dei Maccabei dall’eta antica fino ai giorni nostri.’’
Luigi Russo, Universitá Europea di Roma.
Gabriela Signori, PhD (1991), Habilitation (1999), is Professor of Medieval History in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany, since 2006. From 2001 – 2006 she was Professor at the Westfaelische Wilhelms University of Muenster. Her main area of research is social history of late medieval towns: law, gender, culture and religion. She continuously publishes several monographs, volumes and papers.